皇家华人regularly reviews its operations to ensure that we remain the number one trade association for farmers and growers, providing a first-class service for our membership whilst ensuring the long-term sustainability of the business.
Strengthening our county presence through improved member connection was central to the changes agreed by Council.
In the next year, the organisation will be moving to four administrative regions in England with a staff complement which enables the NFU to deal more efficiently and effectively with the local issues which we know are important to our members. These include rural crime; infrastructure, impacts of extreme weather patterns and the need to deal with strategic local policy issues such as local plans dealing with environmental and climate change issues.
While the organisation has strong reserves and does not face an immediate crisis, it is clear that costs are rising faster than income.
Council agreed a comprehensive programme to achieve a balanced annual budget within the next five years. This has three elements: a cost control programme that already started in 2022; increasing our profit from our commercial subsidiaries; and working our balance sheet harder and increasing our drawings from our investments.
NFU Council also approved a new approach to deal with 鈥渃ross-cutting鈥� issues such as the environment, tenancies, planning, organics, upland farming and supply chain.
New online communities will be open to all interested members and will deal with each issue and formulate policy. These online spaces will be developed throughout 2023.
Information for members interested in becoming involved in a particular NFU community will be available in the coming months.
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